March 2008: CIEL co-hosts Climate Change Event at American University's Washington College of Law on March 20, 2008

February 2008: CIEL is hiring a director for our Climate Change Program

December 2007: CIEL identifies key issues that need to be resolved in the coming negotiations to implement the Bali Plan of Action roadmap for a future international agreement on climate change.

September 2007: CIEL announces Climate Change Program Partnership with Philip Blumberg, Chairman of Blumberg Capital Partners

May 2007: CIEL releases in-depth legal analysis of the Global Environment Facility’s new, controversial Resource Allocation Framework, which currently applies to the GEF climate and biological diversity focal areas.

March 2007: Global warming and human rights gets hearing on the world stage

December 2005 - Inuit File Petition with Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Claiming Global Warming Caused by United States Is Destroying Their Culture and Livelihoods

October 2005 - The Legal Dimensions of Climate Change: A conference by and for the legal profession. Follow-up actvities to be announced soon.

July 2005 - Despite US foot-dragging, G8 leaders send a strong signal on global warming

February 2005 - As the Kyoto Protocol enters into force, the United States must substantially reduce its emissions to prevent an Arctic meltdown and an end to the Inuit way of life

December 2004 - Inuit Leader Sheila Watt-Cloutier announces Intention to File a Human Right Claim Against the U.S. for Its Dangerous Greenhouse Gas Emissions

November 2004: CIEL President Daniel Magraw challenges the Washington Post's claim that the Kyoto Protocol is a "Symbolic Treaty"

October 2004 - CIEL participates in the 11th Annual International Law Career Forum hosted by the Washington College of Law's International Law Society.

September 2004 - CIEL's President Daniel Magraw comments on Russia's decision to ratify the Kyoto Protocol

September 2004 - Head of Inuit group testifies about the Melting of the Arctic -- and the threat this represents -- at the McCain climate change hearing

August 2004 - New study shows parts of Greenland Ice Sheet thinning at rate of 10 meters per year

July 2004 - Eight states file Global Warming Lawsuit against utilities, bolstering claim by Inuit that US greenhouse gas emissions violate their human rights

April 2004 - CIEL Attorney Publishes Article Suggesting Legal Tools to Limit CO2 Emissions from New Coal-Fired Power Plants

December 2003 - Inuit Circumpolar Conference plans human rights action against US for damage to the Arctic caused by global warming.

December 2003 - CIEL proposed an alternative to the Kyoto Protocol's Cap and Trade System for developing countries at the 9th Conference of the Parties to the Climate Convention, 1-12 December 2003 in Milan, Italy

October, 2003 - U.S. Senate fails to pass the Climate Stewardship Act on October 30th, 2003

September, 2003 - CIEL Responds to EPA's denial of its own authority to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act

November, 2002 - Global Warming, Energy and the World Summit on Sustainable Development

February 2002 - CIEL Condemns Bush's Greenhouse Gas Plan as Inadequate to Fight Global Warming Threat

November, 2001 - Hard Work by Environmentalists Makes Climate Negotations in Marrakech, Morocco a success

October, 2001 - CIEL attends Seventh Conference of the Parties in Marrakech, Morocco, October 29 -November 10

September, 2001 - September, 2001 - CIEL prepares Legal Memorandum: Mandate of COP to Adopt Compliance Procedures and Mechanisms

July, 2001 - Bonn Agreement: A Milestone for Climate Protection

July, 2001 - CIEL's Summary of the Compliance Mechanism at the Bonn Climate Change Conference

June, 2001 - Europe: A Committment to Kyoto (Op-Ed article in the Washington Post)

June, 2001 - Developing Country Commitments? Ask George Bush (Senior).

May, 2001 - Bush Energy Plan Violates International Law.

May, 2001 - Congressman Menendez Achieves Global Warming Victory in the House of Representatives.

April, 2001 - Urge Bush to Keep His Campaign Promise and Stop Global Warming!  Find out what you can do at the Natural Resource Defense Council, Greenpeace - U.S.A., Friends of the Earth - Europe and CorpWatch .

March, 2001 - Attorney Glenn Wiser discusses the disconnect between the IPCC reports concerning the impacts of global warming on future generations, and proposed budget surplus fixes.

March, 2001 - Urge Bush to Keep His Campaign Promise and Stop Global Warming!  Find out what you can do at the Natural Resource Defense Council and Greenpeace - U.S.A..

March, 2001 - In “Kyoto, Costs,and Compliance: A Public Interest Lawyer’s View of COP6,” CIEL attorney Glenn Wiser reports on his efforts with the Climate Action Network to prevent a “price cap” rule from being adopted for the Kyoto Protocol by the Sixth Conference of the Parties (COP6) at The Hague.

June, 2001 - View the Quito Declaration from the 4 - 6 May, 2000 workshop in Ecuador regarding "Climate Change Conventionand the Clean Development Mechanism (also available in Spanish).

March, 2000 - Submission by US Climate Action Network in Response to the Note by the Chairman on the Contract Group on Mechanisms